Diabetic Foot
An incredible amount of resources are used in wound care management for diabetics in order to prevent two of the more common complications from occurring, namely progressive infection manifesting as cellulitis or amputation resulting from gangrene - Barbara Sadick
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A Simple Step to Cut Diabetes Costs
An incredible amount of resources are used in wound care management for diabetics in order to prevent two of the more common complications from occurring, namely progressive infection manifesting as cellulitis or amputation resulting from gangrene...
"Foot problems take a big toll: As a common cause of hospitalizations among diabetic patients, they help drive up diabetes-related costs, which totaled $245 billion in 2012, according to the American Diabetes Association, up 41% from 2007.
The good news, doctors say, is that daily inspection and cleansing of the feet—which isn't complicated or expensive—can go a long way toward preventing foot ulcers, which can lead to amputations.…
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Biomedical Engineer Says Her New Smart Socks Can Save The Lives And Limbs Of Diabetics
Self-lacing, light-ups are fun and all. But what if your footwear could monitor your health, or at least a portion of it?
Preventing a million diabetic foot amputations
Every 20 seconds someone, somewhere on the planet, loses a foot due to diabetes. Foot ulcers are the starting point of more than 80% of these amputations, and they could be prevented.
The At-Risk Diabetic Foot: Time to Focus on Prevention
We have witnessed increasing numbers of patients presenting to emergency rooms with untreated diabetic foot ulcers (DFU), infections, and even gangrene, very often resulting from a delay in seeking care. Too many such patients consequently required urgent hospitalization and emergent surgery to control limb-threatening infections. While we recognize that foot-level amputations are often limb-sparing (and sometimes lifesaving) operations, we also know that many such outcomes can be prevented by early intervention. Furthermore, we also recognize that by preventing that initial or recurrent DFU, we can disrupt the causal pathway leading to limb loss.
When Is A Diabetic Foot Problem An Emergency?
Diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic amputations in the United States and the San Francisco Bay Area. Although the number of diabetic foot amputations continues to rise, you can take steps to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.
The Diabetic Foot Infection: When and What Types of Antibiotics are Warranted?
Diabetic foot infections (DFI) are a common problem for patients with poor blood glucose control. The lifetime risk of developing a diabetic foot infection is as high as 25% with estimates of yearly risk reaching 4%.
The Real Costs of Diabetic Foot Complications
This infographic sheds light on the costs associated with diabetes and diabetic foot complications.
Diabetes Is the Price Vietnam Pays for Progress
In a country where limbs were once shattered by ordnance and land mines, hospitals in Vietnam are treating an alarming caseload of “diabetes foot,” an infection that often begins as a minor scrape but then develops into a gangrenous wound because the disease desensitizes patients and compromises the healing process. In the most severe cases, legs are amputated. If the limb can be spared, doctors perform a debridement, a grisly operation that seems more fitting for the trenches of Verdun than for a dynamic, modern metropolis like Ho Chi Minh City.
Got Diabetes? Why You Must Protect Your Feet
Despite the alarming rate of those who wind up in the hospital for this serious diabetes complication, only a small percentage of patients take preventive steps to avoid losing lower limbs.
Putting Feet First
People with diabetes are 30 times more likely to have a lower limb amputation than people without the condition. Every week there are more than 100 diabetes-related amputations in England alone – yet four out of five times the loss of a person’s foot, or even leg, could be avoided.
This Is Wound Care, the Coolest Specialty in Health Care
Once a patient has developed diabetes their wounds need professional help to heal. Many patients ignore these wounds out of fear, which can lead to infection and even lower limb amputation.
What is Wound Care?
You'd probably like to do something soon because waiting can mean infection ... or worse! You might not be aware but Wound Care Advantage has been quietly healing stubborn wounds for well over a decade. By using the most advanced technology like hyperbaric therapy, debridements, and venous ablation, we heel non-healing wounds in less than six weeks.
The Diabetic Foot
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are associated with significant impairment of quality of life, increased morbidity and mortality, and are a huge drain on health care resources. In Western countries, the annual incidence of foot ulceration in the diabetic population is around 2%. DFUs develop as a consequence of a combination of factors, most commonly peripheral neuropathy (loss of the gift of pain), peripheral arterial disease (PAD), and some form of unperceived trauma.
The Diabetic Foot Syndrome an Ignored and Potential Problem in Medical Practice
Diabetes mellitus is emerging as a global problem and burden. Like other complications of diabetes, diabetic foot problems are posing a health burden worldwide as well. This was the reason that International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has specifically focused on diabetic foot problems throughout the year 2005 and for which worldwide campaign to “put feet first” was held. Currently foot ulceration and its related problems has become common is, affecting up to 15% of patients with diabetes during their lifetime.
Diabetic foot disease: From the evaluation of the “foot at risk” to the novel diabetic ulcer treatment modalities
The first step in ulcer prevention is the careful screening for foot problems and detection of patients at high risk. More research is still required to improve the diagnosis of conditions leading to foot ulceration.
Diabetic Foot: Facts and Figures
Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) affect 18.6 million people, worldwide and 1.6 million each year in the USA.
Explainer: how diabetic foot disease can lead to amputations and even death
The most common type of foot disease related to diabetes, affecting up to a quarter of diabetes sufferers, is foot ulcers. These are actually a big financial burden as well. Of the US$116 billion allocated for diabetes care in the United States in 2007, one-third was directed to treat foot ulceration. Here’s why it happens.
New Priority: Saving Feet of Diabetics
"The foot is the most common reason for hospitalization of diabetics, and the most preventable," said Dr. David G. Armstrong, professor of surgery and chairman of research at the Dr. William M. Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine in North Chicago, Ill.
Putting feet first: Preventing avoidable amputations
As with so much of diabetes management, selfcare is incredibly important. Our Putting Feet First campaign is also working to make sure people with diabetes are aware of the seriousness of foot problems, and to help them recognise the key signs.
The Diabetic Foot: Putting Feet First
It is estimated that as many as 70% of all lower-limb amputations in the world are related to diabetes and that more than half of these amputations could be prevented. Most lower-limb amputations in people with diabetes are preceded by a foot ulcer, and the central factors in the development of these ulcers are peripheral neuropathy, foot deformities, minor foot trauma, and peripheral vascular disease.
A Simple Step to Cut Diabetes Costs
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International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot
The mission of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) is to produce evidence-based guidelines to inform health care providers all over the world on strategies for the prevention and management of diabetic foot disease. Thus the IWGDF aims to reduce the high patient and societal burden of diabetic foot disease.
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